Across
- 2. authorization number given by a physician to another referred physician for treatment
- 4. clinician who treats the patient face to face
- 6. recognition of a superior level of skill by an official organization
- 9. any healthcare provider that transmits PHI in electronic form
- 11. action that improperly uses another person’s resources.
- 12. office of the inspector general
- 13. word or term that describes a main term in the Alphabetic Index
- 14. private or government organization that insures or pays for healthcare on behalf of beneficiaries
- 19. method of converting a message into encoded text
- 20. centers for Medicare and Medicaid services
- 21. Accounting software used for scheduling appointments, billing and finical record keeping
- 22. the amount that a patient pays out of pocket before the insurance benefits begin
Down
- 1. who does not interact face to face
- 3. failure to use professional skills when giving medical services that result in injury or harm
- 5. individually identifiable health information transmitted or maintained by electronic media
- 7. intentional deceptive act to obtain a benefit
- 8. updates to the ICD-9-CM diagnostic coding system
- 9. a fixed prepayment covering provider’s services for a plan member for a specified period
- 10. medical billing report given to a patient that lists all that was done
- 15. person who buys an insurance plan
- 16. plan or program
- 17. a word that identifies a disease or condition in Alphabetic Index
- 18. government agency that enforces the HIPAA privacy act